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Executive Director Of Amnesty International India

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Amnesty halts India operations, cites freezing of accounts on 'unfounded' allegations

Amnesty International on Tuesday said it is halting all its activities in India due to freezing of its accounts and claimed that it is being subjected to an "incessant witch-hunt" over unfounded......

Centre treating human rights organisations like criminal enterprises: Amnesty

IMAGE: Amnesty International office building, where Enforcement Directorate conducted a raid in connection with a foreign exchange contravention case against the human rights watchdog, in......

Amnesty India calls for end to ED's 'smear campaign'

Amnesty India has alleged that a deliberate attempt has been made by the government to tarnish the reputation of the human rights organisation by leaking a dossier, supposedly made by the......

Don't use death penalty as a quick-fix solution: Amnesty

Far-reaching procedural and institutional reform, and not the death penalty, is needed to tackle the endemic problem of violence against women in India, stated human rights organisation Amnesty......

No employee raised any slogan at any point: Amnesty clarifies after sedition case

Amnesty International’s India chapter on Tuesday said none of its employee had shouted any anti-India slogan at an event on Kashmir in Bengaluru, allegations based on which sedition charges......

Bullet train costs 3 times more than India's health budget

The vanity project, of absolutely no use to most Indians, will suck money that could be used for health and education, says Aakar Patel. (This column is being repromoted as Prime Minister Narendra......

What will it take for India to be a superpower

'There is an insistence that the government bring about reforms if India is to succeed. The fact is that many nations have done reforms, but are not Great Powers,' says Aakar Patel. What does......

Why I salute Azim Premji

'Azim Premji has given away about one-and-a-half lakh crore rupees of his wealth.''Most of us will not even know what that sum actually means.''To put it into context, it can fund India's health......

What will it take for India to be rich?

'China's development is on a different scale from India's. They are very far ahead.' 'I don't think it will be possible in the next 30 years for us to catch them,' says Aakar Patel.Photograph:......

Is India in for hard times this year?

'The most important issue for Indians, the only way in which to get them quickly out of poverty, is sustained high growth.' 'If we are not doing that despite a strong government and a leader with......

What will we achieve by boycotting Pakistan in World Cup?

'Random displays of anger will end in punishment from the IOC and the loss of points in the World Cup, without achieving what we seek,' says Aakar Patel. IMAGE: India and Pakistan Captains Virat......

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